Category: Design

Hawaiian Cinemagraph

Dora and Christal Cinemagraph

Recently I discovered a website that I thought was really cool. It’s cinemagraphs.com. The thing I really like about this is that these are not just your typical animated gifs. These instead are great photographs that have subtle movements isolated to only one area which places an emphasis on the subject. So I thought I’d give this a try. This image is not necessarily the best photo, but this was more for me to learn the technical aspects of this. Thanks to Christal and Dora for being my models for this scenic cinemagraph in Hawaii.

Hawaii Infographic

Recently Dora and I took a trip to visit her sister and brother-in-law Christal and Daniel in Hawaii. It was a very fun trip with lots of things to do and see and plenty of time to relax and enjoy the scenery. And of course take lots of photos. This is an infographic I made of a few trip statistics and all the things we did/saw. I’m so glad Daniel and Christal let go visit and stay with them. They were wonderful hosts. Photos and video to come soon. Click here to view the PDF.

A Cars Chrismas

This is a quick film I did with a few of my family members over the Christmas break. We put on our own family film festival and split into four teams and each created its own film. We each only had one week to come up with an idea, film it, and edit. Then we all got together one night and laughed at everyone’s awesome films. They all turned out great and it was fun to do. Thanks to everyone that participated. Here is my team’s short film.

St. Moritz Olympics

This last weekly project was to design a one line logo for the London Olympics. We decided to broaden that scope and pick any olympic location. So I chose St. Moritz, Switzerland. So the design was supposed to be just one continuous line and I started that with the St. part of the name. But then I failed miserably with the rest and just did a design that was obviously inspired by the requirements but didn’t completely follow through with them. So this is what I came up with. Maybe at some point I’ll take this beyond a wordmark and add a graphic logo as well.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. So much better than Christmas, Independence Day, Halloween and Valentines. Who wouldn’t love a holiday centered around Food and Football? Oh, and giving thanks and family I guess. This year I shot some video of the day. I even went as far as to run a camera on timelapse in the kitchen while dinner was being prepared. The timelapse shows how frantic and busy the day is while the rest of the video shows how fun and relaxing it can be.

Week Two Design Project

This week’s design project Dora and I did was to design a typeface. Dora took a more artistic approach creating her own unique and original font. Whereas I tried to create something of a mix of some of my favorite san serif fonts. I know that there are still a lot of things I need to fix on these but the week is over and here it is. I created Roman, Light, Medium, and Bold for this. Maybe one day when I’m all done fixing the little details it’ll become famous like Helvetica or Verdana. But hopefully not like Comic Sans or Papyrus.

Holiday Animation

At work I was asked to create a short holiday animation for all the employees to see. Basically a little holiday e-card. It was a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that inspired the idea for it. It’s pretty simple and doesn’t have any sound effects since it was designed specifically for the workplace. But I had fun with it and hope you enjoy. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Weekly Design Project – Retro Poster

Last week Dora and I went to Salt Lake Design Week. I decided I need to design more outside of work to keep my creativity up and to improve my skills. I figure the more I’m designing, the stronger my weaknesses will become.

We bought a book earlier this year that has 80 or so different design projects to help keep you creative. So we decided to set a goal to do one of these projects a week. And we will do it together and make it a sort of friendly competition.

This first project we did was to take a vintage ad and make it modern. Well, I kinda strayed from this one a little and decided to mix a modern ad/poster design and incorporate a vintage album cover design. I love the Coke Side of Life posters and decided to create one similar to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album cover. I had fun with this and think there is room for improvement but the overall concept fit together nicely. It was a fun quick project.

Peterson Film Festival

This Christmas break I am making my family participate in a Family Film Festival. It’s called the “50 Cents Film Festival” and is presented by Peterson Productions and Swedish Pancakes. Mmm…I love swedish pancakes. The festival will be similar to a 48 Hour Film Fest. But instead of 48 hours we have a week. Another requirement will be that all video must be filmed with a flip video camera since we all received one for Christmas last year.

So to introduce the festival I created this short little video starring my beautiful wife. I had fun creating all the titles for it and the film festival logos as well. Dora designed the awesome poster to go along with everything. I think it will be a lot of fun and can’t wait to see what my family will come up with.